December 15, 2012

Vics suffer as $60B aid plan gets porked up. 

President Obama’s $60.4 billion request for Hurricane Sandy relief has morphed into a huge Christmas stocking of goodies for federal agencies and even the state of Alaska, The Post has learned.

The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and…

December 17, 2012

There isn’t a lot to do in Paragould, Arkansas, but residents of the town of barely 25,000 seem to have no problem finding trouble. Now in order to curb the rising crime rate, the city is proposing heavily armed police patrol the streets on foot.

At a town hall meeting on Thursday, Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd…

December 17, 2012

Police in Los Angeles, California have arrested a man that they say made criminal threats against area elementary schools.

The identity of the suspect, apprehended Sunday afternoon, has not been released. On Monday, however, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the individual was still in custody after making online…

In the aftermath of the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a shocked and grieving nation is grasping for answers to an agonizingly simple question: Who could do such a thing? Who could walk into a classroom full of 6-year-olds, innocent…

Dec. 16, 2012

Archaeologists have found carvings in a stone staircase at the La Corona dig site in Guatemala which confirm the ‘end date’ of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012.

It is only the second known inscription which confirms this 'end date'. …

December 17, 2012

Several armed suspects have been arrested for attempts to recreate the Connecticut elementary school shooting massacre, which killed at least 27 people, including 20 children.

In Indiana, a man identified as Von Meyer, 60, was arrested on Sunday after threatening to light his wife on fire and kill as many people as…

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December 16, 2012

Sandy Hook Elementary didn't take chances when it came to safety.

The school had regular lockdown drills, teaching students and teachers to stay quiet and out of sight, a…

December 16, 2012

I heard your argument, and understood it:  

The concept of a world with no government, and privately owned security forces (police, and presumably courts/prosecution/litigation systems as well)....and I am saying that IS what we have now.  The end effect of that is: there will be no way to protect or enforce any poor…

Written by Liza Long, republished from The Blue Review

Friday’s horrific national tragedy -- the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut -- has ignited a new…

December 16, 2012

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not have to testify before a Senate hearing concerning the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi after she fainted and sustained a concussion last week.

Clinton, 65, is currently recovering at home following last week's incident, when extreme dehydration caused by a…

Dec 14, 2012

A South Korean government agency said Friday that working at a Samsung Electronics factory caused the breast cancer of a worker who died earlier this year, only the second time it has recognized a link between cancer and Samsung's chip plants.

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service, which is part of the labor ministry,…

Dec. 16, 2012

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Last weeks horrendous slaughter of beautiful and innocent children is difficult to take, even to those who knew none of them. Such a calamity shakes the entire nation and even the world of those who have feelings for others. And everyone asks, Why? Many zealously religious people may jump in and accuse God of taking vengeance on us for…

Dec. 16, 2012

CEDAR LAKE (STMW) — Police on Saturday seized 47 guns and ammunition from the home of a northwest Indiana man who a day earlier had threatened to set his wife on fire after she fell asleep and kill as many people as he could at a nearby elementary school, investigators said.

Von Meyer, 60, of the 9300 block…

December 16, 2012

Can two wrongs make a right? Westboro Baptist Church, the vicious anti-gay group that pickets the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims, recently declared it will protest at the burials of the children slain in Newtown, Conn. In response, the hacker group Anonymous posted personal information of church members online, including phone numbers, home and…

There's a whole subculture to composting when you enlist worms -- usually red worms -- to do your dirty work.

Worm composting, also known as vermiculture, turns garbage into a rich, dark earth-smelling soil conditioner, which you can use to help your lawn, your flowers or your vegetable garden.

Worm composting doesn't just help you, but…

Composting involves mixing yard and household organic waste in a pile or bin and providing conditions that encourage decomposition. The decomposition process is fueled by millions of microscopic organisms (bacteria, fungi) that take up residence inside your compost pile, continuously devouring and recycling it to produce a rich organic fertilizer and valuable soil…

Now that you're ready to start making compost, you need to know what organic materials can -- and cannot -- be used in the compost bin or pile.

Composting Ingredients

Organic waste is the best raw material to make compost from. This can come from your garden, your kitchen (visit Starbucks' page on…

December 16, 2012

Fears mount this weekend about not just one cavern, but the entire Napoleonville Salt Dome collapsing, with explosive gas still in some of the over 50 caverns inside, as a Louisiana State University geologist explained the worst-case Friday…